Tag: commercial-space
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SpaceX cargo ship makes ‘smooth’ hookup to space station one day after aborted try
The International Space Station’s robotic arm is positioned to capture SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule. (ESA / NASA Photo / Thomas Pesquet) SpaceX’s robotic Dragon capsule has made a trouble-free cargo delivery to the International Space Station, one day after a navigational glitch forced a rare wave-off. Astronauts used the station’s robotic arm to bring in…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has plans for big expansion of Seattle-area HQ
Hardware is spread across the New Shepard assembly area. (Credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has out-of-this-world ambitions – with expansion plans to match. Permit filings at the city of Kent, Wash., reveal plans for a 236,000-square-foot warehouse complex and 102,900 square feet of office space, southwest of Blue Origin’s current 300,000-square-foot…
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Photos: Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from pad 39A, then lands nearby
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off Sunday for the first time from launch pad 39A, a historic facility under lease from NASA, and delivered to orbit an uncrewed supply ship heading for the International Space Station. The first stage booster returned to a landing at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station — 9 miles (15…
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Historic launch pad back in service with thundering blastoff by SpaceX
Credit: SpaceX SpaceX sent a cargo capsule with nearly 5,500 pounds of experiments and supplies on a three-day trip to the International Space Station on Sunday, firing the automated spaceship through low-hanging clouds and into orbit from the same launch pad where Apollo astronauts began voyages to the moon. A kerosene-fueled 213-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9…
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Get a drone’s-eye view of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket landing – and much, much more
The Falcon 9 rocket’s first-stage booster descends through the clouds. (SpaceX Photo) SpaceX’s first-ever commercial rocket launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center was picture-perfect, but the landing was arguably even more photogenic – or should we say “dronogenic”? The company’s Falcon 9 rocket quickly rose into the clouds over Launch Pad 39A, the Florida takeoff point…
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Final experiments added to SpaceX spaceship for station resupply flight
A view of the access room temporarily attached to SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule at launch pad 39A Friday. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Engineers clad in clean suits finished stowing last-minute cargo into SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship Friday, including 40 mice and bacterial research specimens, a day before it is scheduled to blast off to the…
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Live coverage: Dragon cargo carrier reaches space station
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with SpaceX’s 10th operational Dragon resupply flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Don’t miss this spectacular video of 104 satellites deployed in space
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India lofts a record 104 spacecraft on a single rocket
Credit: ISRO An Indian rocket deployed 104 spacecraft into orbit 300 miles above Earth on Tuesday, the largest pack of satellites ever launched on a single booster. The satellites from India, the United States, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Israel, Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates will take pictures of planet Earth, monitor the environment, validate new…
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NASA looks into sending astronauts on a trip beyond the moon as early as 2019
An artist’s conception shows NASA’s Orion capsule in flight. (NASA Illustration) NASA and its commercial partners say they’re studying the possibility of sending astronauts beyond the moon years earlier than planned, by putting a crew on the first flight of the space agency’s heavy-lift Space Launch System. The NASA study, sparked in part by a desire…